Paul Johnson, Regional
Urban Forester, Texas A&M Forest Service, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Paul Johnson is the
Urban Forestry Program Coordinator for the Texas A&M Forest Service. Paul is an International Society of
Arboriculture (ISA) Board Certified Master Arborist and Municipal Specialist.
He is a member of the ISA Board of Directors, coordinator of San Antonio
Arborist Association, and a member of ISA’s Educational Goods and Services and
Certification Test Committees. He
graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in Forestry and has been
a radio talk show host, newspaper columnist, Extension horticulturist,
University adjunct instructor, and plant health care specialist.
Paul D. Ries
,
Instructor and Extension Specialist–Urban Forestry, Oregon State University
College of Forestry, Salem, Oregon, United States
Paul D. Ries has over
25 years of urban forestry experience at the local, state, national,
international, non-profit, and academic levels.
Currently, he teaches urban forestry and arboriculture courses at Oregon
State University as an Instructor and Extension Specialist in the OSU College
of Forestry, and also manages the state Urban and Community Forestry program
for the Oregon Department of Forestry. He serves as a lead incident public
information officer for wildfires and all risk incidents, and is a member of
the Board of Directors for the International Society of Arboriculture, a
world-wide 20,000 member non-profit organization. He holds a master’s degree
from the Ohio State University and is an ISA Certified Arborist.